Indo-Chinese and Malayan tigers

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As far I know, the North American Zoos part of the AZA only breed Amur, Sumatran and Malayan tigers. The European Zoos breed only Amur and Sumatran tigers. Australia and Indonesia also breed pure Sumatran tigers. These are the only ones part of controlled programs of breeding. The only pure Bengal tigers are those from India and just recently there is a established breeding program. The few "pure" breed Indochinese tigers live in few zoos of Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. Finally, the only South China tigers live in China and South Africa. There ends the captive population of the subspecies of tigers.

According with Luo et al. (2010), the population of pure breed captive tigers, registered in regional or international studbooks, is this:
* Amur tigers: 421.
* Indochinese tigers: 14.
* Malayan tigers: 113.
* Bengal tigers: 210.
* Sumatran tigers: 295.
* South China tigers: 64.
For comparison:
* Tigers with unknown origin: 15,000 - 20,000.
Great difference, don't you think?

The following table is from Nyhus et al. (2010). take a look on it, it is self explained:

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Finally, take a look to this other table from Traylor-Holzer (2010):

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Now you have a the best view about the captive population of tigers in the world. Some values, like that of Bengal tigers, don't match with Luo et al. (2010), but that depend of the sources. All sources quoted here are from the book "Tigers of the world" from 2010.
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